settintrendz
Adam Berg
I grew up in the dirt. Riding and racing motocross and bmx. The passion I have for building and riding bikes is generations-deep. Inspiration for the crap I like to build comes from just about every genre of two-wheeled racing, but Id have to say, as evidenced by the thread title, mostly the dirt side of motorsports.
Im mildly obsessed with small-bore, air cooled, vertical Honda motors (XR75/80/100). Not because they are amazing machines with great handling and loads of power (not even close), but because its fun to try and make them go much faster than they were ever intended or should for that matter. Plus, just about everyone that rides (dirt or street) has had experience with, or may have even learned to ride on one of these little guys. They are wildly fun. In fact, we build hybrid mini motocross race/play bikes for adults around the XR/CRF100 motor with a modified CR85 chassis and parts.
Why all the blab about these turds?
Well, while designing/building an XR100 for the salt of Bonneville (in a sort of café style), I thought... Why not build one for the street, using its big brother, the XR400? It fit all my ridiculous requirements; Air-cooled, single, Honda, and I already had the bike.
Few of the specs:
-Honda XR400 motor (440 kit/cam/custom clutch set-up/ machined flywheel/ etc)
-Custom one-off frame
-Sportster front forks, re-sprung and valved
-Mono shock, custom motocross style swingarm, Showa shock re-sprung and valved
-58" WB
-26 degree head angle/ 3.25" trail
-18/19" custom wheelset
-Custom rotors/ Wilwood calipers
-Hand-formed aluminum tank/ tail/ fender
I know its stupid, but here goes...
Quick little sketch of the basic, overall idea.
And here it is in full scale 1:1
Let the fun begin
Im mildly obsessed with small-bore, air cooled, vertical Honda motors (XR75/80/100). Not because they are amazing machines with great handling and loads of power (not even close), but because its fun to try and make them go much faster than they were ever intended or should for that matter. Plus, just about everyone that rides (dirt or street) has had experience with, or may have even learned to ride on one of these little guys. They are wildly fun. In fact, we build hybrid mini motocross race/play bikes for adults around the XR/CRF100 motor with a modified CR85 chassis and parts.
Why all the blab about these turds?
Well, while designing/building an XR100 for the salt of Bonneville (in a sort of café style), I thought... Why not build one for the street, using its big brother, the XR400? It fit all my ridiculous requirements; Air-cooled, single, Honda, and I already had the bike.
Few of the specs:
-Honda XR400 motor (440 kit/cam/custom clutch set-up/ machined flywheel/ etc)
-Custom one-off frame
-Sportster front forks, re-sprung and valved
-Mono shock, custom motocross style swingarm, Showa shock re-sprung and valved
-58" WB
-26 degree head angle/ 3.25" trail
-18/19" custom wheelset
-Custom rotors/ Wilwood calipers
-Hand-formed aluminum tank/ tail/ fender
I know its stupid, but here goes...
Quick little sketch of the basic, overall idea.
And here it is in full scale 1:1
Let the fun begin